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PRODUCED BYMR DEREK FAIRBRIDGE
ANDMR KORY BURK
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Mary Lou
The sun shines down on Mary Lou Like I want it toThe sun comes down on my headKeeps me there in bed
She’s reading Thomas MannAnd drawing up her planFor a way to keep her dayFrom getting all tied up and downAround by everything
Sometimes it makes her stop and crySometimes it makes her simply sighSometimes it makes her wonder whySometimes ...
The sun shines down on Mary LouLike I want it to
Nat Bailey
You always said you weren’t a baseball fanBut now I know that it’s not trueThe grass is greener when you slide home safeSo now you know just what to do
When you come, you come from miles awayI wish you’d come to me againYou swarm around until the skies are greyAnd I now I think it’s going to rain
Step away from the screaming crowdAnd take a bench all on our ownYou start up high and work your way downtownNow I’m the one who’s making noise
Like cotton candy in your mouth ‘tween Your cheek and gumIt’s super-sweet then fades awayYou’ll brush your teeth and rinse the clouds And the sun awayBut I think the taste will stay
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Dolly Madison
Pop Rocks and Big League Chew Led me straight to youWhen Fanta and 7-Up Were enough to fill your cup
Lemon drops were never sourWhen a minute lasts an hourAnd now the sun is bittersweetGood enough to eat
Wet dogs and sweet thingsKept leading me to thisOr so it seemed
Sour Chews and back to schoolAnd end of August blueThings are yellow once were greenOr not as green as they could be
Andre Dawson
We all scream for the emperor of ice creamAt the corner store with nothing more than pocket changeWatch for cars as you cross the street in bare feetAnd cut-off jeans, with ripped seams
The sun closes down and the TV opens wideYou’re on the French channel - what do they say?It doesn’t matter, ‘cause you’re the batterWith a swing that’s sweet as ice cream
Let the sun fix its beam, on the emperor of ice cream
Vanilla white means you’re home tonightPowder blue sends you on the roadLook over here, look over thereTake one last swing
Things aren’t quite as they seem with the emperor of ice cream
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Casey Patterson
Something tells me that the sun will rise tomorrowAt least it won’t blow up todayIt comes around and goes and comes again like clockworkI hope my clock will do the same
But all of this means less in comparisonTo all the dirt beneath my nailsThey look like paw prints, tiny paw printsThey look like paw prints in the rain
They say that red hair fades away when you grow olderLike fields of wheat and bales of hayThe sun will come again and bleach away the carrotWill I know you when you’re grey?
But all of this pales in comparisonTo ketchup chips beneath your nailsThey taste like blood stains, salty blood stainsThey taste like blood stains in the mail
Something tells me that the mail won’t come tomorrowAt least as much that came todayIt comes around and goes and comes just like the mailmanI hope he comes around again with a bright postcard
All songs by Derek Kingston Fairbridge© 2006 D. K. Fairbridge (SOCAN)
Except “Willie Moore” (traditional), “Mack the Knife” (Weill/Brecht/Blitzstein), “Tom Sawyer” (Lee/Lifeson/Peart/Dubois) published by Core Music Publishing Co.
Produced by Derek Fairbridge a Kory Burk Engineered by Kory BurkMixed and mastered by John RahamOgre Studios, Vancouver
Lovingly designed by HomemadeParachute.com
Management by Linus Solomon Abramowitz
Graphic contributions by Adam Lewis Schroeder
Nomenclature by Jan Lars Jensen
Thanks for the use of guitars: Sean Milliken, Kory Burk, Roger Kawase, Panos Grames a Rick “Ragzy” Michalski
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Cyrus
I’ve got this feeling I won’t ever see the Wonder Wheel againGonna have to bop our way back to Coney IslandAnd all we’ve got now are the leather vests upon our backsAnd a can of spray paint to make our tag
Baseball bats and baseball hats and creepy face paintAnd baseball cleats to run you downI’d rather stop and fight than keep on runningSee, I told you they were wimps anyway
Who are the Warriors?Bring them back alive, if not — wasted
It used to be when we saw the ocean we were freeBut things have changed nowYou drew your gun, I drew my knife, I drew your bloodThings have changed now
And I found peace, through MercyThe subway’s final stop was in daylight
You Warriors are good, real goodThe best
Warriors, come out to playWarriors, come out to playWarriors, come out to playWarriors, come out to play
You, Me and the Fencepost
Eric Dolphy wrote a novel for meSat me down on his kneeAnd started to readI cut my finger when I turned to page 33That’s the one about me And Kennedy
Roger Maris wrote an opera for meSays it fell from a tree In 1963He takes a branch and he yanks it off of the treeAnd slugs a homer with gleeTo Nashville, Tennessee
I know that it comes out wrongWhen I compare you to meBut just rememberIt’s just between you and me
Che Guevara paints a picture for meAnd says that I am free To see all I can seeI take the frame and I bust it over my kneeAnd say that I am freeTo be all I can be
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Musicians:
DKF – guitars, vocals, bass, bells, organ, percussionJohn Raham – drums
John Bews – upright bass on “Willie Moore” and “Andre Dawson” Robin Fairbridge – tenor saxophone on “You, Me and the Fencepost”Jamie Hovorka – trumpet and flugelhorn on “Mack the Knife”, “Tom
Sawyer” and “You Me and the Fencepost”Karen Handford – oboe on “Andre Dawson” and “You, Me and the
Fencepost”Nicole Handford – flute on “Andre Dawson”, “Tom Sawyer” and “You,
Me and the Fencepost”Judy Renouf – cello on “Andre Dawson” and “You, Me and the Fencepost”Scott Sanft – electric piano on “Dolly Madison”Jon Wood – dobro on “Willie Moore”